Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-20

lear uOWn tue ttlllDFtQulns, ClOsc INT
piano. rip up the Administer, sell on
the wardrobe. and let the mother take
Il child in each hand and trudge ont
into the desert of the world. A lif'
insurance would have hindered all
that.
But says some one: ~ am a ma
OF small means, and | can't afford TO
pay the premium" That is sometimes
Z lawful ard genuine excuse, and Their, |
is no answer to it; but in nine cases
out of ten when a man says that, he
smokes up in cigars. and drinks down
in wine, and expends in luxuries
enough money to have paid the
premiu u on a life insurance policy
which would have hept his family from
beggary when he is dead. A man
ought to put himself down on the
sTRICTEsr ECONOMY
until he can meet this Christian neces-
.ity. You have no right TO the luxu-
ries of life until you have made such
provision. admire what was said by
Rev. DR.. Guthrie, the great Scottish
preacher. A few years before his death
he stood in "A public meeting and de-
cIared: ''When | came 20 Edinburgh,
the people sometimes laughed at my
blue stockings, ard at my cotton UNI
brella, and they said | looked like a
common plous hman, and they derided
me because / lived in a house for whic1
| paid 1856 rem a year, and oftentimes
! walked when 1 would have been very
glad to have "A cab; but, gentlemen, |
did all that because | wanted to pay
the premium on n life insurance that
would keep my family comfortable if
| should die" That | take TO be the
right expression Of an honest, intelli-
gent, Christian man.
The utter indifference Of many peo-
pie on this important subject accounts
for much of the crime and the pauper-
ism of this day. Who are these chill
dren sweeping the crossings with
broken broom and begging of you a
penny as you 20 byp Who are these
lost souls gliding under the gaslight, in
thin shawlsp All, they are the victims
of want; in many Of the cases the fore
cast of parents and grandparents might
have prohibited 1t. God only knows
HOW THEY STRUGGLED
/ TO do right. They prayed until the
/ tears froze on their checks, they sewed
on the sack until the breaking Of the
day; but they could not get enough
money to pay the rent; they could not
yet enough money to decenrly clo'he
I themselves; and one day in that wretch
, cd home the angel of purity and tn,
angel ef crime fought a great fight be
D tween the empty bread tray and the
g ~fireless hearth, and the black winged
a angel shricked: 'Aha! | have won th'
n day" Says some man: II believe
what you say; it is right and Christian
and | mean sometime to attend to Thu
matter" Ny friend, you are goin,
to lose the comfort of your household
in the same way the sinner loses heav
+ en-, by procrastinati0n. see all aroun'
le me the destitute and suffering familie
III of parents who meant some day to AT
g. tend to this Christian duty. Durin:
le the process of adjournment the ma
ii gets his feet wet. her comes n chi
'e and delirium and the doleful shake O
the Doctors head, and the obsequie-
D. If there be anything more pitiable tina
; a oma delicately brought up, and o.
3 her marriage day 10y IN indulgen
'u father given TO a man to whom she
; he chief JOY and pride of life until tn
$ moment of his death, and then tina
n same going out with helples
"a children at her back 10
h STRUGGLE O
q in a world where brawny muscle an
70 rugged soul are necessarily say,
d there be anything more pitiable tina
that, | do not know what it is. An
F." YET there are good women who are II
different in regard to their husband
ID duty in this respect; and there ar
re those positively hostile, as though
life insurance subjected a man 10 som
d fatality. There Is in Brooklyn to-da
a very poor woman keeping a cand
d shop, who vehemently opposed the in
surance of her husbands life, an
y when application had been made for
d policy Of ten thousand dollars she frus
n trated it. She would never have a doc
ument in the house that implied it wa
POSSIBLE for her husband ever TO die
One day, in the quick revolution Of mi
a chinery, his life was Instantly dash
u nut. What is the sequel? She is, wit
annoying tug, making the half of
e miserable living. Her two childrrl
o nave been taken away from her in or
Ter that they nav be cloth .d, an
: ~chooled, and her life is to be a pro
: onged hardship. q man, before forty
y eight hours have passed away, appea
= 1t the desk of some OF our great If
insurance companies. havo the stethe
= scope of the physician put to you
eart and lungs, and by the seal @
ONE honest company. decree tina
our children shall not be subjected t
he humilia ion Of financial struggle j
q or DAYS of O Il demise.
> But | must ask the men engaged i
y fe insurance business whether the
eel
; THF IMPORTANCE OF THEIR TRUST,
md charge them must that they nee